Don wrote:
Mike Parker wrote:
A big start would be ditching the newsgroups for proper forum
software. I know a lot of people here prefer the newsgroups, but like
it or not this is 2010. Newsgroups are from yesteryear.
I have to say, most forums seem incredibly amateurish to me. I'm amazed
that absolute garbage like phpBB is actually still in use. Is there any
*good* forum software out there? It doesn't seem like it would be hard
to beat a newsgroup. But...
My favorite is SMF [1], which you can see in action at [2] and [3]. I
ran it on a DAOC guild website I used to manage and loved how simple it
was to administer. They are now working toward a 2.0 release, but I
haven't played with any of the RCs yet.
Another I like is vBulletin [4], which I use regularly at [5] and
elsewhere. Unlike SFML, it's a commercial offering and I've never seen
the admin side. Personally, though, SMF is my favorite, both as a user
and an admin.
[1] http://www.simplemachines.org/
[2] http://lwjgl.org/forum/
[3] http://www.javagaming.org/
[4] http://www.vbulletin.com/
[5] http://forums.indiegamer.com/
